“The ache for home lives in all of us,

the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

-- Maya Angelou --

Interior of a Water Mill

Fridessemolen, watermolen op de Neer. Molenhuis met wolfdak, XVIII-XIX. Woning met zadeldak tussen gezwenkte gevels. Ankerjaartal 1717. Muur met wagenpoort.

Bron: Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed

♫ Mood ~ Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful

Life Doesn't Frighten Me

by Maya Angelou

Life doesn't frighten me at all.

You always gain by giving love.

Reese Witherspoon

Love recognizes no barriers.

Maya Angelou

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love loves to love love.

James Joyce

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜 💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️

"Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Quote - Iris Chang

"Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice."

Quote - Maya Angelou

♫ Nobody Knows ♫ - The Lumineers

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A gift to the 2.5+ million lost to COVID-19 and their families who struggle each day to look "through the darkness to the dawn."

Johns Hopkins COVID Map

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When Great Trees Fall

by Maya Angelou

*Working Towards a Better World

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. - Thomas Merto

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. -

Maya Angelou

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️

Location: Shadazar

Paragon who Sits: freefljan

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They Went Home

~Maya Angelou~

They went home and told their wives,

that never once in all theit lives,

had they known a girl like me,

But... They went home.

They said my house was licking clean,

no word I spoke was ever mean,

I had an air of mystery,

But... They went home.

My praises were on all men's lips,

they likes my smile, my wit, my hips,

they'd spend one night, or two or three,

But...

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Soft you day, be velvet soft,

my true love approaches,

look you bright, you dusty sun,

array your golden coaches.

Soft you wind, be soft as silk,

my true love is speaking.

Hold you birds, your silver throats,

his golden voice I'm seeking.

Come you death, in haste, do come,

my shroud of black be weaving,

quiet my heart, be deathly quiet,

my true love is leaving.

Maya Angelou

Artworks & Photography

Location: BBBB Studio (SL)

Model: Narelle Brenner

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Still I Rise

-Maya Angelou-

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

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*Working Towards a Better World

I have found that among it other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. - Maya Angelou

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. -

Mary Parker Follett

Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness. - Ola Joseph

Civilizations should be measured by degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. - W.H. Auden

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

"and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own"

Excerpt from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou

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Willie was a man without fame

Hardly anybody knew his name.

Crippled and limping, always walking lame,

He said, “I keep on movin’

Movin’ just the same.”

Solitude was the climate in his head

Emptiness was the partner in his bed,

Pain echoed in the steps of his tread,

He said, “I keep on followin’

Where the leaders led.”

I may cry and I will die,

But my spirit is the soul of every spring,

Watch for me and you will see

That I’m present in the songs that children sing.”

People called him “Uncle,” “Boy” and “Hey,”

Said, “You can’t live through this another day.”

Then, they waited to hear what he would say.

He said, “I’m living

In the games that children play.

“You may enter my sleep, people my dreams,

Threaten my early morning’s ease,

But I keep comin’ followin’ laughin’ cryin’,

Sure as a summer breeze.

Wait for me, watch for me.

My spirit is the surge of open seas.

Look for me, ask for me,

I’m the rustle in the autumn leaves.

“When the sun rises

I am the time.

When the children sing

I am the Rhyme.

Poem : Maya Angelou

Happy Birthday to my handsome son, Séan who always finds a way to make me laugh, Thank you!

This is posted 1 day early especially for Sliders Sunday!

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Maya Angelou

HSS 😊 😊 😍

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

The free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wings

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

~Maya Angelou

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A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

HSS 😊 😊 😍

Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.

Tena Desae

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Bradley Whitford

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Brad Henry

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences,

penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Make room for me

to lead and follow

you

beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have

the privacy of

touching words

and love of loss

of love.

For me

Give me your hand.

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"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."

Quote - Maya Angelou

If you want, have a guess, what do you think this is….?

(It is a photo straight out the camera, only processed it to mono))

I want to share some feelings with this lovely poem

about sadness and darkness in life!

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'Still I Rise'

By Maya Angelou

"You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame

I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise."

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Copyright Credit: Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise" from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994)

Be well my friends!

*Working Towards a Better World

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Maya Angelou

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Audrey Hepburn

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence

We are all apart of the same thing.

Anon

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what the color.

Maya Angelou

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Rene Dubos

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength - it’s diversity.

Melissa Etheridge

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

Wayne Dyer

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R.I.P Maya angelou A true angel and someone who inspired people all over the world including me with her words of wisdom and acts of kindness the world has lost an angel but heaven has gained another . may her memory forever live on xxx

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. - Ernest Hemingway

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” -

George MacDonald

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. - Maya Angelou

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo❤️

when you learn, teach,

when you get, give.

~Maya Angelou

"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other." ~ Maya Angelou

Snapped @ The Olive Tree ~ D/s Sanctuary

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*Working Towards a Better World

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what the color. - Maya Angelou

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength - it’s diversity. - Melissa Etheridge

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. - W.H. Auden

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. -

Gene Roddenberry

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans Hughes

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Today is the 5th day of Valentine's month of February, and here is another work about love.

Your skin like dawn

Mine like musk

One paints the beginning

of a certain end.

The other, the end of a

sure beginning.

Maya Angelou

Diversity and inclusion is less about a program, and more about helping people become comfortable enough to have a dialog about their experiences—including times when we have felt like an outsider.” - Carin Taylor, Chief Diversity Officer, Workday

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter, President of the USA

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live in the same box.

Robert Fulghum, author

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Angelina Jolie, Actress, Filmmaker and Humanitarian

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Roger Wilkins, Journalist, Professor and Civil Rights Leader

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Deep dirges moan

from the belly of the sea

and you song floats to me of

lost savannas green and drums.

of palm tree

bending

woman like swaying

grape blue children

laugh on beaches of sand as

white as your bones clean

on the foot of long ago waters.

Father ..

I wait for you

Wrapped in

the entrails of whales

your blood now blues , spume

over the rippled surface of our grave

Maya Angelou

...We are weaned from our timidity

In the flush of love's light

we dare be brave

And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free...

Maya Angelou

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Today is the 24th Valentine's day of February, and what better time to share my love of travel? Through travel, one learns how other people live, their traditions, lifestyles, climate, food, arts, and many new and interesting ways to live and look at life somewhat differently. Travel gives one a whole new education.

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The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

A Strip of Blue

Lucy Larcom (1824–1893)

I do not own an inch of land,

But all I see is mine, –

The orchard and the mowing fields,

The lawns and gardens fine.

The winds my tax-collectors are,

They bring me tithes divine, –

Wild scents and subtle essences,

A tribute rare and free;

And, more magnificent than all,

My window keeps for me

A glimpse of blue immensity, –

A little strip of sea.

Richer am I than he who owns

Great fleets and argosies;

I have a share in every ship

Won by the inland breeze,

To loiter on yon airy road

Above the apple-trees,

I freight them with my untold dreams;

Each bears my own picked crew;

And nobler cargoes wait for them

Than ever India knew, –

My ships that sail into the East

Across that outlet blue.

Sometimes they seem like living shapes, –

The people of the sky, –

Guests in white raiment coming down

From heaven, which is close by;

I call them by familiar names,

As one by one draws nigh,

So white, so light, so spirit-like,

From violet mists they bloom!

The aching wastes of the unknown

Are half reclaimed from gloom,

Since on life’s hospitable sea

All souls find sailing-room.

The ocean grows a weariness

With nothing else in sight;

Its east and west, its north and south,

Spread out from morn till night;

We miss the warm, caressing shore,

Its brooding shade and light.

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Chief Seattle

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

Tom Freston

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

Walking along the nicely cleared path on the Promenade, a shared path, part of the Waterfront Recreational Trail in Toronto.

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Nadie puede atenuar la luz que brilla desde adentro (Maya Angelou)

Love recognizes no barriers.

Maya Angelou​

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jean Austen

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️

A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH (Maya Angelou)

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet

Traveling through casual space

Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns

To a destination where all signs tell us

It is possible and imperative that we learn

A brave and startling truth

And when we come to it

To the day of peacemaking

When we release our fingers

From fists of hostility

And allow the pure air to cool our palms

When we come to it

When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate

And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean

When battlefields and coliseum

No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters

Up with the bruised and bloody grass

To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

When the rapacious storming of the churches

The screaming racket in the temples have ceased

When the pennants are waving gaily

When the banners of the world tremble

Stoutly in the good, clean breeze

When we come to it

When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders

And children dress their dolls in flags of truce

When land mines of death have been removed

And the aged can walk into evenings of peace

When religious ritual is not perfumed

By the incense of burning flesh

And childhood dreams are not kicked awake

By nightmares of abuse

When we come to it

Then we will confess that not the Pyramids

With their stones set in mysterious perfection

Nor the Gardens of Babylon

Hanging as eternal beauty

In our collective memory

Not the Grand Canyon

Kindled into delicious color

By Western sunsets

Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe

Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji

Stretching to the Rising Sun

Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor,

Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores

These are not the only wonders of the world

When we come to it

We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe

Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger

Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace

We, this people on this mote of matter

In whose mouths abide cankerous words

Which challenge our very existence

Yet out of those same mouths

Come songs of such exquisite sweetness

That the heart falters in its labor

And the body is quieted into awe

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet

Whose hands can strike with such abandon

That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living

Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness

That the haughty neck is happy to bow

And the proud back is glad to bend

Out of such chaos, of such contradiction

We learn that we are neither devils nor divines

When we come to it

We, this people, on this wayward, floating body

Created on this earth, of this earth

Have the power to fashion for this earth

A climate where every man and every woman

Can live freely without sanctimonious piety

Without crippling fear

When we come to it

We must confess that we are the possible

We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world

That is when, and only when

We come to it.

“A Brave and Startling Truth” was published in a commemorative booklet in 1995 and was later included in Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry

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Week 243 in Poetography... A weekly Inspiration. The word/theme this week is Work

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"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change" Maya Angelou

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Let's not forget the people of the Ukraine who are fighting for their lives and to preserve their country and their freedom.

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014.

We all deserve our freedom and to live our lives in peace.

"You will face many defeats in your life,

but never let yourself be defeated."

~ Maya Angelou

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

"I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."- Maya Angelou

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” ~ Maya Angelou

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love” ~ John Lennon

38:52 Take the greatest picture you can of that in which you truly believe.

Some words from Maya Angelou! Happy Smile on Saturday and have a lovely weekend!

In one of her memorable poems, ‘Still I rise’, Maya Angelou asked:

“Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries. ”

Maya never answered these questions directly; she hinted at them in the title of the poem, which inspired the title of this humble post. The poem's anger and probable answers are on display in the sandstone block above that arrogantly holds on to a tiny bit of itself despite being ravaged all over.

HSS 😊😊😍

Peace is liberty in tranquility.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.

John Lennon

Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

Coretta Scott King

Passion makes the world go 'round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice-T

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love recognizes no barriers.

Maya Angelou

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Nicolas Chamfort

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Sean O'Casey

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

Nicholas Sparks

I know that there are at least a couple of quotes I have used before, and no doubt will use again, they mean so much to me.

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*Working Towards a Better World

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -

Voltaire

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. - Amelia Earhart

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Mary Ritter Beard

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. -

Laurel Clark

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. - Jawaharial Nehru

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -

Maya Angelou

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. - Mark Jenkins

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